F. Murray Abraham

86, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Artwork for How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden WorldImage of F. Murray Abraham

Biography

F. Murray Abraham (born Murray Abraham; October 24, 1939) is an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he came to prominence for his acclaimed leading role as Antonio Salieri in the drama film Amadeus (1984) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama as well as a BAFTA Award nomination.

Abraham made his Broadway debut in the 1968 play Man in the Glass Booth. He received the Obie Award for Outstanding Performance for his roles in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (1984) and William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2011). He returned to Broadway in the revival of Terrence McNally's comedy It's Only a Play (2014) receiving a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play nomination.

He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as All the President's Men (1976), Scarface (1983), The Name of the Rose (1986), Last Action Hero (1993), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Dillinger and Capone (1995), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), Finding Forrester (2000), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Isle of Dogs (2018) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019).

He was a regular cast member on the Showtime drama series Homeland (2012–2018), which earned him two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He also starred in Mythic Quest (2020–2021), Moon Knight (2022), and The White Lotus (2022) with the latter earning him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series.

Timeline

2026Aged 87

  • Poster for Bookends

    Saul Cohen

2025Aged 86

  • Poster for Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece

    Himself

  • Poster for The Phoenician Scheme

    Prophet

  • Poster for Milarepa

    Oyun

  • Poster for This Ordinary Thing

    Self (voice)

2024Aged 85

  • Poster for Mother, Couch

    Marcus / Marco

2023Aged 84

  • Poster for Double Soul

    Mentor

2022Aged 83

2021Aged 82

  • Poster for Things Heard & Seen

    Floyd DeBeers

2019Aged 80

  • Poster for How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

    Grimmel (voice)

  • Poster for Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

    Ayatollah (archive footage)

  • Poster for Lady and the Tramp

    Tony

2018Aged 79

  • Poster for Isle of Dogs

    Jupiter (voice)

  • Poster for Every Act of Life

    Self

  • Poster for Super Cats

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Robin Hood

    Cardinal

  • Poster for The Letter

    Narrator

2015Aged 76

  • Poster for 411

    Information (voice)

2014Aged 75

  • Poster for The Mystery of Dante

    Dante Alter Ego

  • Poster for The Grand Budapest Hotel

    Mr. Moustafa

  • Poster for Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

    Self

  • Poster for A Little Game

    Norman Wallach

2013Aged 74

  • Poster for Dead Man Down

    Gregor

  • Poster for Love, Marilyn

    Self

  • Poster for The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die

    Braque

  • Poster for Inside Llewyn Davis

    Bud Grossman

2012Aged 73

2011Aged 72

  • Poster for Is That Skunk?

    Narrator

2010Aged 71

2009Aged 70

  • Poster for The Dragon Chronicles

    Narrator

  • Poster for Perestroika

    Professor Gross

  • Poster for Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…

    Self

  • Poster for Barbarossa

    Siniscalco Barozzi

2008Aged 69

2007Aged 68

2006Aged 67

  • Poster for 40 Years of Star Trek

    Self

  • Poster for Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers

    Jeffrey

  • Poster for The Stone Merchant

    Shahid

  • Poster for Quiet Flows The Don

    Pantaley

2004Aged 65

  • Poster for Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    Viceroy of Peru

2003Aged 64

  • Poster for Five Moons Plaza

    Entita

  • Poster for Try to Remember: The Fantasticks

    Self

  • Poster for My Father

    Paul Minsky

2002Aged 63

  • Poster for Joshua

    Father Tardone

  • Poster for The Making of 'Amadeus'

    Self - Salieri

  • Poster for Ticker

    Airport Guru

2001Aged 62

  • Poster for Knights Of The Quest

    Delfinello da Coverzano

  • Poster for Thir13en Ghosts

    Cyrus

2000Aged 61

  • Poster for The Directors: Milos Forman

    Self

  • Poster for The Darkling

    Bruno Rubin

  • Poster for Finding Forrester

    Robert Crawford

  • Poster for Un dono semplice

    Thomas Barlow

1999Aged 60

  • Poster for The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy

    Professor Henry Covington

  • Poster for Esther

    Mordechai

  • Poster for Noah's Ark

    Lót

  • Poster for Muppets from Space

    Noah

  • Poster for Excellent Cadavers

    Tommaso Buscetta

1998Aged 59

  • Poster for Waiting for Godot in San Quentin

    Himself

  • Poster for Star Trek: Insurrection

    Ad'har Ru'afo

1997Aged 58

1996Aged 57

  • Poster for Baby Face Nelson

    Al Capone

  • Poster for Looking for Richard

    Self

  • Poster for Puma: Lion of the Andes

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Children of the Revolution

    Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin

1995Aged 56

  • Poster for Dillinger and Capone

    Al Capone

  • Poster for Mighty Aphrodite

    Chorleiter

1994Aged 55

  • Poster for Jamila

    Older Seit

  • Poster for L'Affaire

    Lucien Haslans

  • Poster for Surviving the Game

    Wolfe, Sr.

  • Poster for Fresh

    Chess Hustler

  • Poster for Nostradamus

    Scalinger

1993Aged 54

1992Aged 53

  • Poster for The First Circle

    Stalin

  • Poster for Through an Open Window

    Narrator

1991Aged 52

  • Poster for Money

    Will Scarlet

  • Poster for Mobsters

    Arnold Rothstein

  • Poster for By the Sword

    Suba

  • Poster for Eye of the Widow

    Kharoun

1990Aged 51

  • Largo Desolato

    Professor Leopold Nettles

  • Poster for Performance Pieces

    Jack Narwhal

  • Poster for A Season of Giants

    Papa Giulio II

  • Poster for Cadence

    Capt. Ramon Garcia

  • Poster for The Little Match Girl

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Drums of Fire

    Osrain

  • Poster for The Bonfire of the Vanities

    D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)

1989Aged 50

  • Poster for Beyond the Stars

    Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man

  • Poster for Slipstream

    Cornelius

  • Poster for The Favorite

    Abdul Hamid

  • Poster for An Innocent Man

    Virgil Cane

  • Poster for The Making of Slipstream

    (Unknown)

1988Aged 49

  • Poster for The Third Solution

    Father Carafa

  • Poster for The Great San Francisco Earthquake

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Il Trovatore

    Self - Host

1987Aged 48

  • Poster for La rosa dei nomi

    Self

1985Aged 46

  • Poster for Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise

    Herman Melville

1984Aged 45

  • Poster for Amadeus

    Antonio Salieri

  • Poster for Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier

    Goldstein

1983Aged 44

  • Poster for Scarface

    Omar

1978Aged 39

  • Poster for Madman

    Marco Cohen

  • Poster for The Big Fix

    Eppis

1977Aged 38

  • Poster for Sex and the Married Woman

    Duke Skaggs

1976Aged 37

  • Poster for All the President's Men

    Arresting Officer #1

  • Poster for The Ritz

    Chris

1975Aged 36

  • Poster for The Prisoner of Second Avenue

    Taxi Driver

  • Poster for The Sunshine Boys

    Mechanic

1973Aged 34

  • Poster for Serpico

    Detective Partner (uncredited)

1971Aged 32

  • Poster for They Might Be Giants

    Clyde (the usher)

Year unknown